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Josh Grosse wrote:
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<font size="2"><b>On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:24:08 -0600, Michael wrote</b>
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style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">></span></span>Thanks for
your help. Something I don't understand is how come I got
the problem after doing 3 fresh installs and <br>
> then trying to "upgrade",
but as soon as I followed your directions using my 4.3 cd, installboot
worked fine? <br>
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I am clueless. My last guess -- sector location and the BIOS -- turned
out to be wrong. Googling for hard disk size
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and BIOS can find all sorts of architectural limitations that have been
reached throughout the x86 architecture's <br>
history -- e.g.:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/bios/size.html">http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/bios/size.html</a>
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But unfortunately, none are near 6GB, where your "a" partition lives.
:(
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Well at least 4.4 is installed with your help.<br>
I'll let you and the list know how things go when I try the other hd
and/or computer.<br>
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Mike<br>
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